Example Sentences

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The report outlined 14 recommendations for reducing the number of restraints and seclusions across the state.

From Newsweek • Feb. 13, 2015

The report says that programs around the country have reduced restraints and seclusions as well as problem behavior using other strategies to calm students.

From Newsweek • Feb. 13, 2015

Collecting and publicly reporting the numbers of seclusions and restraints was a good first step, Diaz said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 17, 2015

St. Teresa had glorious visions; and after, in her walks and seclusions, had the company of angels with beautiful countenances and corporeal shapes.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

He was already too stained and scarred with life to look for the staidly upholstered sanctuaries, the padded seclusions of simple and honest wayfarers.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William